Mass view and edit content in a summary table
Version 1.0.0
Copyright 2007 Red Innovation
Licenced under GPL.
Summary product adds a new field type "SummaryField". SummaryField allows viewing and editing data collected from other content objects. Data is displayed as a table which acts as a shortcut for quick overviews and mass editing.
This product is aimed for Plone developers only. Python knowledge is needed for the product usage.
The orignal use case for this product was editing of a hospital patient visit information. A doctor needed to have a quick look to patient visit and laboratory measurement information.
Other imaginary use cases:
See screenshots.
Out-of-box supported field and widget types
Use Plone quick installer to install demo types if you wish to see the product in action.
Please see supplied demo content types and their source code how to use this product.
Feature comparison with DataGridField product which is another table editor component
Features in DataGridField | Features in Summary |
Stores data in object field | Stores data in arbitary storage backend |
Cool Javascripted UI to add new rows easily | New rows cannot be added without a custom code |
Rich stylesheet customization hooks | Per cell input value validators |
Per cell input value locking | |
Works around some ZPublisher limitations | |
Rich stylesheet customization hooks | |
More flexible API |
The product is supplied with basic unit tests.
Following product combination was used for system testing
This product development was sponsored by ZiteLab.
Use plone.org product area issue tracker to report bugs and suggestions for the product.
To ask help, to sponsor product development or to hire skilled Plone developers, please contact us.info@redinnovation.com
Wishing a happy Ploning,
Mikko "Moo" Ohtamaa